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October 7, 2006   Table of Contents

Jim's Interview with Chris Brisson

Last month I did an Internet Radio with Chris Brisson, which we recorded. Unfortunately, Chris' part of the interview had a heavy echo in it. We had planned to re-do the interview before posting it, but my schedule just hasn't allowed the time.

Since I'm off to Maui to explore opening a Living Foods Institute there, I've decided to post the recording as-is. Hopefully, after I get back home Chris and I can re-record the interview.

So, for what it's worth, here's our 65-minute Internet Radio Interview (11 mb in mp3 format): http://chidiet.com/audio/jim-call-edit.mp3.

Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce

For years, you've been able to choose foods with less fat or fewer additives. Now, with EWG's 4th edition of the popular Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce, you can minimize your chemical exposure in the produce aisle.

EWG always recommends organic, but we know you can't always find it. Our new Guide features the 12 fruits and veggies with the most and least pesticides so you'll know which ones to buy organic, and which conventionally-grown ones are okay when organic isn't available.

How'd we do it? EWG analyzed over 42,000 of the latest government tests for pesticide residues on commonly-eaten fruits and vegetables. We then ranked the results based on six measures of pesticide loads, after washing and peeling. Click here to download your printer-friendly PDF Guide now.

There is growing consensus in the scientific community that small doses of pesticides and other chemicals can adversely affect people, especially during vulnerable periods of fetal development and childhood when exposures can have long lasting effects. Because the toxic effects of pesticides are worrisome, not well understood, or in some cases completely unstudied, shoppers are wise to minimize exposure to pesticides whenever possible.

Nearly all of the data used to create these lists already considers how people typically wash and prepare produce (for example, apples are washed before testing, bananas are peeled). While washing and rinsing fresh produce may reduce levels of some pesticides, it does not eliminate them. Peeling also reduces exposures, but valuable nutrients often go down the drain with the peel. The best option is to eat a varied diet, wash all produce, and choose organic when possible to reduce exposure to potentially harmful chemicals.

Get your copy of the guide here: http://www.ewg.org/sites/foodnews/walletguide.php (available in English and Spanish).

Phytonutrients and Wheatgrass

by Anne Kaspar

What are Phytonutrients:

Phytonutrients are the active components found in the skins of fruits, vegetables, grains, and seeds that are responsible for pigment, taste and smell. Unlike the traditional nutrients found in protein, fats, vitamins, and minerals, phytonutrients are not "essential" for life; however, they have been shown to be powerful antioxidants that work to promote overall health.

There are over 25,000 different phytonutrients that have been identified in fruits and vegetables. Those foods rich in phytonutrients include tomatoes, green tea, carrots, broccoli, wheatgrass and chlorella. To function at optimal health, the human body needs a wide variety of phytonutrients from a variety of sources. The best way to reap the benefits of phytonutrients is to eat natural, whole foods.

What is Wheatgrass:

The wheatgrass that is certified organic produces high concentrations of chlorophyll, enzymes and vitamins. The wheatgrass seed begins its journey absorbing natural nutrients from a soil prepared using organic methods containing NO genetically engineered products, in preparation to become a tall, fruitful plant. At this stage, the plant has the nutrient profile similar to that of other leafy green vegetables and will continue to grow until these nutrients reach their peak levels, at about three inches in length. Organic wheatgrass contains vitamins A, B complex, C and E, trace elements calcium, iron, magnesium and potassium, enzymes and amino acids. As an antioxidant, organic wheat grass can boost the immune system and scavenge free radicals. Organic wheatgrass has been shown to be a powerful body detoxifier. Its high chlorophyll content cleanses the liver, tissues and cells and purifies the blood. Organic wheatgrass also contains folic acid, iron, and vitamin B-12 which are required for proper red blood cell production.

What is Chlorophyll:

Chlorophyll is the green pigment molecule in plants and is responsible for absorbing the sun's energy for photosynthesis.. Interestingly, the chlorophyll molecule in plants is chemically similar to hemoglobin in human blood. The only difference in the two molecules is that the central atom in chlorophyll is magnesium, whereas in humans it is iron. As a food supplement, chlorophyll can detoxify and purify the blood and liver, help build red blood cells and aid in tissue repair.

What are the other ingredients:

Vitamin A (as Natural Beta Carotene) for improved eye health and to guard against infection;
Vitamin B-2 (Riboflavin) to aid in the release of energy from foods and promote normal growth and development;
Vitamin C to guard against cardiovascular disease, boost immunity, aid in wound healing, help form collagen in connective tissues;
Vitamin D to maintain blood levels of calcium and promote its absorption;
Vitamin K for proper bone and blood function;
Calcium for strong bones and teeth, efficient blood clotting, nerve cell transmission and health muscle contractions;
Potassium for proper electrolyte and fluid balance;
Iron for stimulation of the bone marrow production of hemoglobin (red-blood cell that carries oxygen to other cells)

What is detoxification:

After a period of time, the body builds up toxins and natural waste products from chemicals, pollution and overindulging. A process of cleansing the internal system, or detoxifying, helps rid the body of harmful chemicals that may be contributing to fatigue, illness, pain, and poor digestion. Cleansing can be achieved through various modalities, including fasting, diet, saunas, and a range of whole foods vitamins, herbs, and nutrients.

What does Wheatgrass do for me:

Organic wheat grass detoxifies and oxygenates the blood thereby increasing circulation, energy levels, immune system function and an overall sense of well being from good nourishment. Wheat grass and chlorophyll are phytonutrients rich in amino acids, protein, fiber, vitamins, minerals, enzymes that work together to strengthen immunity.

Why do I need Wheatgrass:

Organic wheatgrass, rich in chlorophyll, enzymes, vitamins and nutrients has been linked to improved health. Some of the benefits of wheatgrass include:
Increase of hemoglobin production;
Rebuilding of the blood stream;
Purifying the blood;
Improving the body's ability to heal wounds;
Neutralizing toxins and carcinogens in the body;
Helping to purify the liver;
Improving digestion;
Removing heavy metals from the body.

Please call BodyByBliss today for an initial introduction and consultation. 
Begin your life anew!

Anne Kaspar
Health and Wellness Consultant
BodyByBliss

19 Grasslands Trail
Santa Fe, NM 87508
O & F 505.474.9699
C 505.690.0169
bodybybliss@aol.com
www.bodybybliss.com

Backslider's Corner

Backsliding but progressing is NOT about feeling guilty about slipping. Even if you weren't 100% raw this week, how much better are you feeling than when you were on the SAD?

Backsliding??? Slide back in to a Raw Living Foods Institute to be re-inspired in your rawness. It works for me - every year!

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Mr. Carey,

I couldn't agree more with your statement about those of us with too little experience and too much enthusiasm, and I'll tell you why. In late Dec. 2004 I spent two weeks at CHI, and about a month later my wife spent two weeks there. When I came home, I had it all figured out. I had stopped eating meat, which I am proud to say I still do not eat, and I just knew that I was a strict "raw fooder" forever.

A year and a half later, after consistently taking one step forward and two steps back, I realize that I must commit myself to this way of life for the long haul. It is just not something that we figure out in two weeks or even a year. While I have kept a diary since leaving CHI, when I read back over it, I see more that I don't know than I do know.

The one positive aspect of the whole experience, though - and it is a big one - is that where my wife was scheduled to have both knees replaced in Feb., 2005, she has been able to cancel that surgery. Today, while not totally pain or symptom free, she is able to work 35 to 40 hours a week, where before she could not be on her feet for more than 2 hours at a time.

No, we did not learn everything by coming to CHI, but it all started there, and a year after the exploration that started there, we are much the better for it.

Sincerely,
Bill Cowley

P.S. Tell Mr. Haughey that a revelation came to me the other day. That is, the reason that eating raw food is not the same as eating meat is that when we eat a living food, we do not kill the plant. Rather, it lives on as part of our living blood. It becomes part of our life force.

Raw Living Foods Home Study Program

Thinking about a lifestyle change? NOW is the time to do it! The kids are back in school, vacations are over, and it's going to be easier to find a bit of time for yourself again.

Surrounded, as we are, with increasing toxicity in our food and environment, eating a pure and healthy diet is more important than ever. That's why the Raw Living Foods Movement is growing so fast.

There's a lot more to being a Raw Fooder than eating fruits and veggies. Dietary variety, purity, balance, sprouting and personal detoxification are important, too. Now you can learn about the Raw Living Foods Lifestyle in the comfort and convenience of your own home. Learn how to detoxify your body, what to eat, why to eat it, and how to prepare yummy raw food meals that leave you feeling full and satisfied. The home study version of the Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Lifestyle includes over 45 hours of video instruction, and a comprehensive manual.

The Raw Living Foods Lifestyle has been taught by a series of visionaries in the past century. Dr. Ann Wigmore used it to cure herself of colon cancer in the 1950's, and then taught it for decades at Hippocrates Institute in Boston and Creative Health Institute in Michigan, where she taught others to heal themselves naturally.

If you can't get into a residential program, then the home study program is for you. There's so much material in the home study program - 15 lessons, 30+ videos, 350+ page handbook - that you'd have to spend at least a month at a place like Creative Health to learn as much.

The First Lesson is Free - Examine the program in your home for 30 days. Even if you don't elect to continue your subscription, the first lesson is still yours to keep.

SPECIAL BONUS - Extended!

When you order the complete raw living foods lifestyle Home Study Program this week we'll also include over $100 worth of bonus materials:

Personal Raw Coaching: 30 minutes of free coaching and consultation (by telephone) with Hiawatha Cromer, "The Wise Woman of Raw Foods"
Bonus Book: "Green for Life," by Victoria Boutenko (read the Book Review)
Bonus Video: "Greens can Save Your Life," with Victoria Boutenko (2 Tapes or DVDs)
Bonus Video: "Dr. Ann Wigmore's Kitchen," with Dr. Ann and Dr. Flora van Orden III
Bonus Video: "Out of the Ordinary," with Robert Taylor, Steven Gibb and Dr. Jim Carey
Bonus Book: "Finding Health in Hodunk," by Thom Hartmann
Bonus Video: A surprise title.

For purchase information and more details, please visit chiDiet.com/lessons.htm.

What people are saying about the home study program: http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/feedback_home_study_program/index.html.

October is Vegetarian Awareness Month

What are your plans for celebrating?  Create your own special veggie event! Consider these ideas or invent your own:

Make a meatless date with a meat-eater
Host a vegan dinner party
Bring a vegan treat to your child's school
Teach a friend or family member how to create a healthy meal (especially those with diabetes, heart disease or cancer, etc.)
Walk a child through the meal planning process - start at your local farmers’ market to shop, or perhaps in your garden
Bike to a park and have a vegan picnic
Pass out brochures on veganism - like “Why Vegan” or PCRM's “Vegetarian Starter Kit” - at a local college
Hold a vegan potluck at work
Start your cruelty-free holiday shopping list: http://www.allveganshopping.com/links.html 

Celebrate Vegetarian Awareness Month in your way, but have fun and share!

Note: Vegetarian Awareness Month is internationally dedicated to Mohandas Gandhi, born on October 2nd.

- from VegMichigan's newsletter: VeggiesInMotion.org

Raw Living Foods Hands-on Training

Now is the time to visit Creative Health Institute and learn about Dr. Ann Wigmore's Raw Living Foods Lifestyle.

Some try to heal you with vitamins or herbs, others with drugs or surgery. But the Dr. Ann Wigmore program is different - We Don't Wait to get sick. The Wigmore Program “tunes up” your entire body, now, so you won't get sick in the first place!

We've been teaching the benefits of a plant-based diet for 30 years in an intensive, two-week, hands-on program of health education and raw foods preparation. The testimonials of former Creative Health students speak volumes about the Living Foods Lifestyle that we teach - http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/feedback_creative_health_institute/index.html.

The best way to get to know us it to come visit for an afternoon. Alternate Sundays we have a wonderful raw gourmet vegan buffet at 2:30 pm. Call us at (866) 426-1213 for dates. For driving directions and maps visit CreativeHealth.us/directions.htm.

What people are saying about the Creative Health Institute program: http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/feedback_creative_health_institute/index.html.

In The News

Teenagers who eat fruit and vegetables every day may build stronger bones than those who don't, according to new research from Cambridge University. Teenage boys and girls who ate lots of fruit and veg were found to have heavier and stronger bones, especially in their spines: http://www.thenewspaper.org.uk/health/pg000769.php.

(New Zealand) Christchurch vegan Ella Soryl (11) has challenged Professor Robert Pickard to prove his claims that her diet is lacking. Ella, a life-long vegan who has never eaten animal products, won her school triathlon this year, and was a finalist in the Vegan Triathlon in 2005 and 2006. Ella has challenged Professor Pickard to compete with her in a one-on-one triathlon: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0609/S00236.htm.

When selecting a mango there are a few key qualities to look for. Knowing when the mango will be used will help: http://www.mad4mango.com/mango/aboutmangos3.html.

A new UCLA/Louisiana State University study of dietary data on more than 17,500 men and women finds consumption of salad and raw vegetables correlates with higher concentrations of folic acid, vitamins C and E, lycopene and alpha and beta carotene in the bloodstream. The findings blunt concerns about the human body's ability to absorb nutrients from raw vegetables, as well as concern that the structure and characteristics of some plants undercut nutritional value: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060901161202.htm.

Sleeping for less than six hours or for more than nine hours each night is associated with an increased risk of diabetes and impaired blood sugar (glucose) tolerance by 2.5-fold: http://www.defeatdiabetes.org/Articles/sleep050505.htm.

High Meat Consumption Linked to Colon Cancer - Until recently, eating a high-fiber diet was thought to prevent colon cancer, but it has proved disappointing. Now the focus has shifted to "excessive meat consumption," says Jeffrey R. Prince of the American Institute for Cancer Research. Possible villains in meat: heme iron, nitrates, nitrosamines and salt in processed meats, and heterocyclic amines in meats cooked at high heat. Also, high meat intake produces gut byproducts that are carcinogenic: http://www.usaweekend.com/06_issues/060917/060917thinksmart.html#eatsmart.

(American Family Physician) Common warts (verruca vulgaris) are a common problem among patients who present in family physicians' offices. Although a significant number of warts will spontaneously resolve over two years, patients frequently request treatment to clear their skin of the lesions. Treatments such as cryotherapy, acid preparations, laser therapy, heat, and tape occlusion have been used in the management of warts, with cure rates ranging from 32 to 93 percent. However, most of these therapies are expensive, painful, or labor intensive. A few small, nonrandomized trials have studied the use of duct tape in wart treatment, with one study reporting cure rates of approximately 80 percent. Focht and associates compared the effectiveness of cryotherapy with duct tape applied to common warts: http://www.aafp.org/afp/20030201/tips/8.html.

(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced a $5.9 million study in six states to try to find the causes of autism. The study, the next of the agency's promised initiatives to look more closely at the disorder, would look for factors that may put children at risk for autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities, the CDC said: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061007/hl_nm/autism_dc_1. (They can start by looking here: http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/vaccination_issues/index.html.)

Events

The Regular Meetings and Events page is at RawLivingFoods.typepad.com/1/regular_meetings_and_events/index.html.

Free (Electronic) Copies of Why Suffer?

Why Suffer?: How I Overcame Illness & Pain Naturally
by Dr. Ann Wigmore, DD, ND. An Inspiring Classic.

This is Dr. Ann's autobiography about growing up with her homeopath Grandmother in Lithuania, healing herself of gangrene as a teenager, and discovering wheatgrass juice and raw living foods as the treatment for her cancer, after the doctors gave up on her. This was the basis of the findings and teachings of the Wigmore Diet Program of Dr. Ann, used by thousands to reverse dis-ease, detoxify and rejuvenate. Paperback, 182 pages.

Thanks to the efforts of Harold Dillard and Donald Haughey, this life-changing book is now available for free via download (you'll have to supply the printer and paper, or read it on your computer): RawLivingFoods.typepad.com/books/whysuffer.pdf.

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Hi Jim!

Well, I was reluctant to print all 88 pages of the Ann Wigmore book you posted but I am glad I did! It was great. I'm not done yet but just wanted to pass along the kudos to you all for the know-how to get it up and on the web so we all can enjoy it. It's great to hear the whole background of Ann. I love hearing the stories about when she was a child. Very enlightening!

Thanks again,
Peace,
Michelle Plucinsky

Sorting Through the Maze of Alternative Medicine

Confused by all the claims of Alternative Therapies and Treatments? So was Dr. Lorraine Day, MD, when she developed Cancer. Dr. Day has a video titled, "Sorting Through the Maze of Alternative Medicine," in which she details her journey though 60 alternative therapies, until discovering the teachings of Dr. Ann Wigmore, and healing her cancer with the living foods lifestyle. We have a few copies of the video in stock (only on DVD, 3 hr. 45 min.): http://chidiet.com/tapes.htm#v53.

Raw Living Food Recipe - Divine Pumpkin Pie

A Fall Harvest Treat

Devine Pumpkin Pie

Filling:
1 medium pumpkin
8 dates
3 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp cardamom
1/4 tsp cloves
1/4 tsp allspice
1/4 cup of raw honey
3 Tbs. coconut butter
2 tsp vanilla extract
3 Tbs. psylium husks

Crust:
2 cups pecans
8 dates
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
Dash of sea salt

Frosting: (optional)
2 cups of cashews
6 dates
2 Tbs. raw honey
The juice of one orange

1. In a food processor or champion juicer homogenize all the ingredients in the crust. Take homogenized mixture and press into the bottom of a pie plate.

2. In a Vita Mixer or blender combine all the ingredients for the filling and blend until creamy. The filling should be creamy and semi-firm. The psyllium and coconut butter will thicken the pie as it sits in the refrigerator. Add filling to the crust.

3. In a blender or Vita Mix blend cashew frosting together. Frosting needs to be loose enough to spread over the pie. A little water may be needed.

4. Allow to set in the refrigerator for at least one hour.

From Lesson 10 of the Raw Living Foods Home Education Program: http://chidiet.com/lessons.htm.

Start Your Own Living Foods Institute

While I was studying at Brenda Cobb's Living Foods Institute last month I met Harold Blackmarr, who is interested in starting a Living Foods Institute.

Harold has 10 acres of land near Macon, GA, with a farmhouse on it and some buildings. The land is zoned Agricultural, and Harold thinks that a dedicated couple could grow a wonderful Organic garden and start a small Living Foods Education Center on the property.

If you're interested, please contact me and I'll pass your phone number on to Harold.

- Jim Carey

More Raw Living Foods Resources

For an organized, searchable resource on all sorts of Raw Living Foods Lifestyle information, including the newsletter articles sorted by subject, visit our new website at RawLivingFoods.typepad.com.

Back issues of the newsletter are available at http://chidiet.com.

Why Suffer?: How I Overcame Illness & Pain Naturally, by Dr. Ann Wigmore, ND, is available for free via download (you'll have to supply the printer and paper, or read it on your computer): RawLivingFoods.typepad.com/books/whysuffer.pdf.

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